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-Absolutely no work from home exceptions without a Doctor's note, and even then it's frowned upon by the C-Suite and HR -Employees getting tested are told not to share that they are being tested or test results with peers creating a culture of fear and mistrust -CEO more concerned with hosting tours in his "living showroom" than the safety of his employees. Wants to show potential clients that they are 100% back in office and adapted to the new normal, all the while employees that have been working in the building are testing positive for COVID-19 - When an employee tests positive, their team is sent home and tested as well, however, we work in an almost completely open work environment with almost 300 people where there are communal coffee bars, trash cans and printers with one entrance and 2 restrooms. The chances of coming in contact with others expands far beyond just the team. - Employees are seen as guinea pigs to test out different office solutions/new products - this is fine in a regular climate, but not okay during a pandemic -Management has been seen away from desks mingling without masks -CEO has adamantly stated that he will not even explore the idea of working from home until sales improve, yet refuses to acknowledge that the reason sales are down is because we are in the middle of a pandemic and other organizations are working from home (i.e. not buying furniture for their offices) -Hourly workers are no longer allowed overtime and sales is making far less than projected in commission, yet salaried positions are not taking a hit in pay at all, creating an unfair burden on workers that depend on overtime and commission as part of their income.

I worked in the "Technology" department as they like to call it. So I can only speak in regards to that. The majority of the departments seem to be fairly happy with low turnover and fairly high morale. Every department has its issues but most seem stable. This is NOT the case for the tech dept. Developers, IT techs, Netsuite admins LOOK ELSEWHERE. The dept was started by a horrendous CIO that got fired and they brought in a "hot shot" from Seattle who came from Nike. I'll let you be the judge of why a hotshot from Nike living in Seattle would move to Coppell TX for a 80 person startup. It seems he is barely qualified to be a project manager let alone a CIO. He is clearly extremely insecure and in WAY over his head. To compensate for all of this he hired 2 of his close personal friends and previous colleagues. I assume he offered them very high salaries because they moved their family from out of state to come work at Varidesk. As planned these two quickly rose to middle management. I thought the CIO was bad and then I met these two. Openly insulting employees out loud, discussing their side businesses that they run at work, extremely aggressive attitudes, close minded to any new ideas, belittling their subordinates openly and out loud for the entire dept including the CIO to hear. These are your future leaders if you take a job here. It would be one thing if all of this was going on and projects were being completed on time and their projects were successful and making the company more successful. But it has been the complete opposite. Every single project has been late and when it finally launched was an entire disaster. If someone wasn't fired for it and thrown under the bus it was all to be very carefully discussed and swept under the rug. The only reports back to the CEO were that everything is great and going as planned. Turn over is extremely high in this dept and when people quit or are fired this management trio openly talks down about the most recent fire or talks about another biting the dust like it is absolutely no big deal. Complete and utter failure at the management level in the tech dept will eventually be the downfall of the website and website sales if management doesn't do some something drastic. I personally did not get fired or quit without notice. I gave my notice and left peacefully. I loved the company and saw such a great future there but could not handle the constant negativity, insulting behavior, extremely low morale, wildly inappropriate management and complete lack of leadership in the technology department.